{"id":31456,"date":"2012-08-10T14:20:43","date_gmt":"2012-08-10T18:20:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=31456"},"modified":"2012-08-10T14:20:43","modified_gmt":"2012-08-10T18:20:43","slug":"hotel-employee-mocks-wounded-vet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=31456","title":{"rendered":"Hotel employee mocks wounded vet"},"content":{"rendered":"

We bounced this story around last night between me, TSO and Old Trooper, but the only source we could find was iReport at CNN, the same place that told Ballduster McSoulpatch’s tale of woe about being discharged from the Army as a colonel for being gay. So you can see why we didn’t run with it last night. But today Fox News<\/a> tells the tale about Staff Sergeant Chad Staples, veteran of the war in Iraq where he was wounded and paralyzed from the waist down when he shielded another soldier with his body.<\/p>\n

So he was in a Best Western hotel when their elevator broke down. He called the front desk for help getting his bags and wheelchair down the stairs;<\/p>\n

The hotel employee [Holly Oyerbides], Staples said, replied: \u201c\u2019What do you want me to do about it?\u2019 She laughed at him.\u201d<\/p>\n

At that point, Staples said his son used a couple \u201cpoor word choices\u201d by using two expletives.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe said, \u2018Are you [expletive] serious? I\u2019m in an [expletive] wheelchair,\u2019\u201d Robert Staples said. \u201cHe then hung up the phone and then threw his bags and wheelchair down the stairs and slid down on his backside.\u201d<\/p>\n

Best Western representatives, in a statement posted Thursday on its website, apologized for the incident, citing a power outage that impacted the area.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

See, the story sounded too far-fetched when we heard it last night without some more background, but everything led back to iReport.<\/p>\n

I hope the little shit got fired, too. If she couldn’t help, she didn’t have to laugh and answer as she did. Oyerbides was over-employed, obviously, if she couldn’t treat the man with a small measure of decency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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